OT xls2csv date problem?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:50:10 -1000,
  Dave Burns <tburns at hawaii.edu> wrote:
> When I use xls2csv (part of catdoc package) it can't handle dates. -f
> switch is supposed to help, but does nothing, results are identical
> with/without it.

You could try using the perl-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel perl module and write a
very short program to do the conversion for you.